With the cold frames under several feet of snow, and our hoop house buried, it might be awhile before we’re able to transplant our seedlings. If only we had a sturdy cold house! But they’re doing well. Here’s a brief up-date: A Red Bulb Onion A Cold Hearty Red Romaine Red Russian Kale
Category: Produce
Swiss Chard
Below is a photo of young Swiss chard plants taken last summer. A Swiss chard seedling emerges in the photo above. Swiss chard is of the Chenopodiaceae family, related to orach, beets, lamb’s-quarters, quinoa and spinach. Aside from being gorgeous and, in my opinion, a beautiful addition to the perennial garden, it’s an excellent source of vitamin…
Taking Stock
The end of January, snow falling outside, the air brisk. Traditionally, this is to take stock of our food supplies. This morning I checked on the winter squash we’ve stored in an unheated upstairs bedroom. We lost a few of the tiny ones to the low humidity but between the remaining Butternut, Long Island Cheese pumpkin and Red…
Crop Planning
January is the perfect time to sit down with a cup of tea, browse through seed catalogues, and begin to figure out exactly how many plants of each variety I’ll need to plant in the coming month, when I’ll plant them, and where. Which will be a one-time planting? Which crops will I plant successively? For example,…
A colorful celebration of this season’s harvest:
“Growing food is the most basic use of the natural resources of the Earth, and through food production. we make our own working landscapes. How each society or nation produces and distributes food in large measure determines its identity.” Elizabeth Henderson in Sharing the Harvest, a Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
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